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#nation

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To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand. ↗


— Charles Taylor


#self #self-identity #self-determination

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will." (Against Fortunatus) ↗


— Augustine of Hippo


#salvation #self-determination #sin #self-determination

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig. ↗


— N.T. Wright


#grace #self-righteousness #self-determination

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world. ↗


— Hans Urs von Balthasar


#catholicism #christ #christianity #eternal-child #god

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner ↗


— Lisa Kleypas


#humor #jack-travis #procrastination #humor

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. ↗


— Caleb Carr


#rivers #time #imagination

Apparently having your girlfriend get shot in the head and Life Flighted away takes its toll on a guy. Imagine that? I told him it was no biggie, but he’s been kind of edgy about it. ↗


— Laura Griffin


#romantic-suspense #imagination

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight. ↗


— George MacDonald


#imagination #faith

When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to getting that sex would be making sure you had four quarters. Then you grow up and it turns out you do live in that kind of world. A world with coin-operated sexbots. And it's not really as great as you thought it would be. ↗


— Charles Yu


#sex #imagination

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady ↗


— H.G. Wells


#sleep #work #work-life-balance #imagination






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